Boolean Expressions will explore the ways in which artists use mathematical ideas and systems in their work - examining themes relevant to the legacy of George Boole who was the first Professor of Mathematics at Queen’s College Cork. Artists: Darren Almond, Aram Bartholl, Mel Bochner, Hanne Darboven, John Gerrard, Sol LeWitt, Tatsuo Miyajima, Aisling O’Beirn, Matthew Ritchie, and Lynne Woods Turner.www.glucksman.org

Exercise (Dunhuang) 2014 opens at the Richard Massey Foundation for Art and Science, NY, USA as a triptych of objects accompanied by photographic documentation from the production of the work. Exercise (Dunhuang) was originally commissioned by the Richard Massey Foundation.

Infinite Freedom Exercise (near Abadan, Iran) 2011 joins the permanent collection of the museum and is shown as a projection in 'Creating Realities. Encounters between Art and Cinema' at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany.

03/10/2014 – 01/12/2014John Gerrard, Solar ReserveAt the Lincoln Centre in association with the Public Art Fund

Displayed on a monumental frameless LED wall on Lincoln Center’s Josie Robertson Plaza, Solar Reserve (Tonopah, Nevada) 2014 by John Gerrard is a computer simulation of an actual power plant known as a solar thermal power tower, surrounded by 10,000 mirrors that reflect sunlight upon it to heat molten salts, essentially forming a thermal battery which is used to generate electricity. Over the course of a 365-day year, the work simulates the actual movements of the sun, moon, and stars across the sky, as they would appear at the Nevada site, with the thousands of mirrors adjusting their positions in real time according to the position of the sun.

In 2014, Lonely At The Top (LATT), located on the sixth floor of M HKA, is sure to become a place for dialogue. In this four-episode programme, established names from the Belgian art scene introduce a lesser-known artist. Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Luc Tuymans, Ria Pacquée and David Claerbout host the series, as there is obviously nobody better placed than an artist to recognize important talent. The lesser-known artists, in turn, return the favour and select one or more works by the established name for the presentation. Both artists enter in conversation during the Thursday evening preview of a new Dialogue.
http://www.muhka.be/en/toont/event/3193/DIALOGUE

The Space Where I Am - a group show exploring ideas of the void and emptiness from the 1960s to the present day. The exhibition’s title is taken from philosopher Gaston Bachelard’s book The Poetics of Space (1958), which describes the lived experience of space and where he contended “it is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality”. All of the assembled works examine the dialectic between absence and presence, primarily valuing absence in the construction of form. Further details.

06/06/2014 – 27/09/2014The Surface of the World: Architecture and the Moving ImageMuseum of Contemporary Art and Design, Pasay, Philippines

The exhibition, curated by Clare Carolin, former curator at the Modern Art Oxford, the National Touring Exhibitions, and Hayward Gallery, London, brings together the fields of architecture and film under one roof, giving students and the general public a great opportunity to study the range of technology in both fields and to see its ever-widening influence in society. The exhibition will feature artworks that are all video-based, working within the idea of the moving image, and investigates a range of practices from video works and installations to that of shorts and full-length films.
Participating artists: Tacita Dean/John Gerrard/Dionisio Gonzales/Isaac Julien/Cocoy Lumbao/Saskia Olde Wolbers/Elizabeth Price/Józef Robakowski/Julian Rosefeldt/John Smith/Zbigniew Rybczyński/Apichatpong Weerasethakul
http://mcadmanila.org.ph/

The Irish Architectural Foundation curates The Everyday Experience at IMMA. Architects, designers and artists reflect on the impact and practice of architecture and its effect on everyday lives. Work by Tatiana Bilbao, Tom dePaor and Peter Maybury, Pablo Bronstein, Set Collective, Celine Condorelli, John Gerrard in collaboration with A2 Architects, Alex Milton amongst others will reveal how much of our experience of designed or informal space is unconscious.

02/11/2013Constructing the ViewIrish Museum of Modern Art

A day of conversations between photographers, architects and theorists exploring the ways in which photography may be used not just in recording built space, but also in its conception, design, evaluation and investigation. Participants, Hugh Campbell, John Gerrard, Dennis Gilbert, David Grandorge, Fiona Kearney, Declan Long, Shelley McNamara, Mark Pimlott, Philipp Schaerer, Jules Spinatsch, Alexandra Stara, Space Framed, Thomas Struth, Michael Wolf. Organised by : School of Architecture, University College Dublin, Architectural Association of Ireland. Irish Architecture Foundation., School of Architecture, Queen’s University Belfast., Irish Museum of Modern Art. www.constructingtheview.com

08/08/2013 – 07/09/2013CoexistKevin Kavanagh Gallery

COEXIST is an exhibition that explores an often hidden practice in contemporary art making, namely the role of the studio development as expressed by works on paper.Ailbhe Ní Bhriain | Gerard Byrne | Amanda Coogan John Gerrard | Nevan Lahart | Sean LynchCurated by Eamonn Maxwell

14/07/2013 – 27/07/2013Cuban SchoolGalway Arts Festival

The first Irish showing of two recent works by John Gerrard . The two large-scale digital projections presented for his Festival exhibition are meticulous slow-moving ‘virtual portraits' of schools constructed in the 1960's Cuban countryside. Install shots are here and here.

Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Leckey explores in this exhibition how our relationships with artworks and common objects are transformed through new technologies. He has included a provocative mix of historical and contemporary works of art, videos, mechanical objects and archaeological artefacts. Included in this mix is an ancient Egyptian mummified cat, a bionic hand, a medieval gargoyle head and a supersized inflatable Felix the Cat.
John Gerrard showing Lufkin (near Hugo, Colorado) 2009.

Exhibition continues until Sunday 14 April 2013

Open daily 10am - 6pm. Free.http://www.thebluecoat.org.ukAlso touring to Nottingham Contemporary and the De la Warr Pavilion.

An exhibition of works from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden’s collection that employ processes of copying, imitating and duplicating, runs through May 19. Featuring artists such as Richard Artschwager, Vija Celmins, John Gerrard, Nikki S. Lee, Roxy Paine, Gerhard Richter, George Tooker and Rachel Whiteread.

www.hirshhorn.si.edu/bio/press-release-out-of-the-ordinary/

21/03/2013 – 09/06/2013More RealThis exhibition is organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in partnership with SITE Santa Fe

24/03/2013 – 11/08/20130 to 60. The Experience of Time in Contemporary Art. North Carolina Museum of Art

Co-organized by the NCMA and Penland School of Crafts, 0 to 60. The Experience of Time in Contemporary Art highlights a current trend in contemporary art: exploring the intersection of time and art by artists who employ innovative and experimental techniques. This collaborative, multimedia exhibition is on view simultaneously at both sites, featuring a major exhibition and outdoor installations at the NCMA and a series of artist residencies and installations at Penland, accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue that covers the projects at Penland and the NCMA. Focusing on the concept of time and its influence on art, the exhibition looks at how time is used as form, content, and material in art, and how art is used to represent, evoke, manipulate, or transform time. Featuring artists who ignore the traditional boundaries among art, craft, and design, the exhibition presents approximately 65 works of art by over 30 international artists, including Walead Beshty, Paul Chan, Tara Donovan, Tim Hawkinson, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Lisa Hoke, Beth Lipman, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Jennifer Steinkamp, Do Ho Suh, Vera Lutter, Bill Viola, Stacy Lynn Waddell, and many others.
Oil Stick Work (Angelo Martinez / Richfield, Kansas) 2008 will be exhibited as a projection.
March 21st 2013 - June 9th 2013http://www.ncartmuseum.org/

12/01/2013Open File: Long Live the New FleshInstitute of Contemporary Art, London.

Featuring Sidsel Christensen, Dori Deng and Meta Drcar, Benedict Drew, Plastique Fantastique, Joh Gerrard, Nicolas Provost and Head Gallery. The second in a series of three nation-wide events by Open File investigating the distribution and production of art via virtual and digital platforms through sound, performance and digital media. Open File is a curatorial project that exists across live events, printed publications and online media. This event coincides with the final weekend of Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2012.

27/07/2012 – 14/09/2012﻿Pursuit of Perfection: The Politics of SportThroughout the South London Gallery and Southwark Old Town Hall, 31 Peckham Road SE5 8UB.

Pursuit of Perfection: The Politics of Sport brings together art works which, in different ways and to varying degrees of seriousness or wit, play on some of the issues raised by sport, the politics surrounding it and its representation in the media. Aleksandra Mir’s spectacular installation Triumph, 2009, comprises 2,529 trophies; a sound piece by Janice Kerbel presents a specially scripted baseball commentary; and works by Roderick Buchanan, Lucy Gunning, Jonathan Monk, Ariel Orozco and Paul Pfeiffer take football as their subject. In Southwark Old Town Hall, John Gerrard’s Exercise (Djibouti) 2012 uses digital technologies to explore aspects of sport, spectacle, military exercise and power. In stark contrast, Michel Auder’s low-tech video collage of clips from TV coverage of the 1984 LA Olympics focuses on the human body, eroticised and mechanised in its pursuit of perfection.
27th July - 14 September 2012. Admission Free.http://www.southlondongallery.org

Participants include:
Antoine Bousquet, lecturer in International Politics, Birkbeck University of London
Shane Brighton, Lecturer in International Relations, University of Sussex
Donna De Salvo, Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Programs, Whitney Museum of American Art
James Der Derian, Research Professor, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University
Mark Fisher, cultural theorist, author of Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (2009).
Mark Hansen, Professor of Literature and Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Literature
Stepan Kment, Lead Studio Engineer, Bohemia Interactive
Robin Mackay (Chair), Director of Urbanomic
Eivind Røssaak, Associate Professor, Film and Media Studies, Department of Scholarship and Collections, National Library of Norway, Oslo
Anne-François Schmid,Associate professor of epistemology and philosophy, INSA de Lyon
McKenzie Wark, author of A Hacker Manifesto (Harvard 2004), Gamer Theory (Harvard 2007)
Eyal Weizman, Professor of Visual Cultures and director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London
The event will be held on Wednesday 11 July in front of an invited audience and transcripts will be made available in the Old Power Station shortly afterwards.SIMULATION, EXERCISE, OPERATIONS was supported by Thomas Dane Gallery, Simon Preston Gallery and a donor who wishes to remain anonymous. http://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/http://www.urbanomic.com/

07/07/2012 – 31/01/2013More Real? Art in the Age of TruthinessSITE Santa Fe

Presented by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and SITE Santa Fe.
Live Fire Exercise (Abadan, Iran) 2011, will be presented.http://www.sitesantafe.org/

Exercise (Djibouti) 2012 is a major new simulation by John Gerrard presented as a large-scale cinematic installation in the setting of the Old Power Station, Oxford.
Originating in found documentary images of US military exercises in Djibouti (Horn of Africa) and informed by research into athletic achievement, the work makes use of emerging technologies to reflect on the relationship between competitive sport, military training, theatrical performance and dance.
On a simulation of the barren Djibouti landscape, two teams of computer-generated figures meet daily at dawn to initiate a series of cryptic gestural routines – precise, repetitive, faintly antagonistic. The scene is a painstaking and extraordinarily detailed reproduction, constructed by hand within the virtual using photographic and satellite data guides from the real landscape. Neither completely synthetic nor strictly real, the work exists in ‘real time’ (Djibouti: GMT +3 hours), orbiting over a yearly cycle that incorporates the movements of sun, moon and stars.
Exercise (Djibouti) 2012 is commissioned by the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, Oxford University Sport and Modern Art Oxford and forms part of the London 2012 Festival.
Principal Exhibition Supporter: Audiomotion
THE OLD POWER STATION, ARTHUR STREET, OXFORD, OX2 0AS
OPEN DAILY: 7 - 29 JULY/ 12 - 6 PM
The Old Power Station is located a 10-minute walk from Modern Art Oxford and a 2-minute walk from Oxford train station.

Related Events
John Gerrard: Lecture 10.07.2012 at 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Thursday, 5pm. Free, booking essential. John Gerrard discusses Exercise (Djibouti) 2012. The newly commissioned work will be contextualised alongside the wider Exercise series and Animated Scene, an earlier related series on the American landscape. Magdalen College Auditorium, entrance on Longwall Street.
BOOK TICKETS: http://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/

John Gerrard In Conversation With Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith 24.07.2012 at 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
DATE UPDATED! Free, booking essential. Old Power Station, Arthur Street, Oxford. John Gerrard is joined in conversation with Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, critic, curator and Senior Lecturer at University College Dublin.
BOOK TICKETS: www.modernartoxford.org.uk

Speakers will discuss the logic of extraction, in its various forms, and the idea of the human as 'homo extractus'. Speakers include artist John Gerrard, Allen Buckley, author of The Story of Mining in Cornwall and many other publications on Cornish industrial history, Esther Leslie of Birkbeck College, University of London, author of Synthetic Worlds: Nature, Art and the Chemical Industry, and Shaun Lewin, of the University of Plymouth, a spatial data specialist who has been closely involved in the development and implementation of England's first comprehensive mapping of inshore fishing.
Building on the legacy of last year's Falmouth Convention, 'The Penzace Convention' develops the interdisciplinary approach that was exemplified through field trips in 2010 and is conceived as an international meeting of artists, curators, writers, scientists, historians, philosophers and experts from other fields, with an emphasis on exchange of views and experiences. The Convention will focus on the far west of Cornwall, drawing on histories specific to this locale. In addition to field trips and conference presentations, it will offer opportunities for informal debate and social exchange.
THE PENZACE CONVENTION will reflect on the theme of extraction, with reference both to the social and environmental legacies of Cornwall's extractive industries - mining and fishing in particular - and to the processes by which artists draw meaning from history and site. Iain Boal, a social historian of science, technics and the commons, who teaches at the University of California at Berkeley and has lived on San Francisco Bay for twenty-five years, will give the keynote, comparing Cornwall and the northern California littoral as zones of extraction. In particular he will trace the legacies - environmental and social - of mining and fishing considered as industries tied into a globalised market, by drawing out the paradoxes of depletion and sustainability, of tourism and the heritage industry, of regional autonomy and centralised subsidy, of lived reality and the mythos of the far West.http://www.thepenzanceconvention.com/http://www.urbanomic.com

Explore the ways in which artists visualise time and its passing in Marking Time. Featuring major works by eleven Australian and international artists, you’ll see the concept and representation of time — past, present and future — reinterpreted and revealed across such diverse media as drawing, watercolour, sculpture, installation, sound and light.
Discover meaning in unexpected subjects as the past and present collide in Edgar Arcenaux’s ambitious large-scale drawings; consider the concept of universal time through Tatsuo Miyajima’s video and photography; see how Lindy Lee harnesses the power of fire and water in her weather paintings. In Rivane Neuenschwender’s poetic flip-clocks and calendars, witness time become elastic and open-ended; while Elisa Sighicelli literally rewinds time through the medium of film – watch as exploded fireworks contract to pin-points against the night sky, as ends return to beginnings.
Accompany Katie Paterson and Gulumbu Yunupingu as they turn their gazes upwards depicting ancient cosmic phenomena and celestial formations through confetti, moonlight and upon bark panels and hollowed memorial (Larrakitj) poles.
Examine the connections between real time and digital artifice in John Gerrard’s epic, slow moving animations of American mid-western scenes and see time pass before your eyes in Jim Campbell’s flickering, ever-changing scenes inspired by family albums and events and created using computer-programmed light. Study the relationship of geo-political dates throughout history in Tom Nicholson’s vast wall drawing and become transfixed by Daniel Crooks’ mesmeric videos as he stretches and reconfigures time into abstract bands of colour.
Some pieces come to life only at night, such as Jim Campbell’s monumental installationScattered Light illuminating the Museum’s front lawn, and others develop and change through the course of the exhibition, amplifying the effects of time. A fitting exhibition to mark the opening of the new Museum of Contemporary Art, join us to celebrate time in all its beauty, drama, devastation and subtlety through these diverse and dynamic works.
Exhibiting Oil Stick Work (Angelo Martinez, Richfield, Kansas), Universal (near Iron Springs, Alberta) 2010, and Sun Spot Drawing (Guantanamo City) 2011http://www.mca.com.au/

The first UK showing of two recent works by Gerrard consolidates his reputation as one of the most innovative artists working today. Cuban School (Community 5th of October) 2010 and Cuban School (Sancti Spiritu) 2011 are meticulous slow-moving virtual portraits of schools constructed in the 1960’s Cuban countryside that are now decaying functional ruins.
Both works are infinite in duration based on a continuous real-time 365-day solar cycle, and powerfully mark the melancholic demise of a political vision.
Curated by AV Festival in partnership with mima. UK Premiere.

Sited outdoors in the city centre, John Gerrard’s new piece 'Infinite Freedom Exercise (near Abadan, Iran) 2011' is an infinitely evolving hyper realistic virtual world, played out 24 hours a day. On the screen is a single figure, dressed in generic army fatigues, moving continuously through a series of exercises against the backdrop of a Persian landscape. Using 3D motion scanning, the exercises are captured from movement created in collaboration with award-winning choreographer Wayne McGregor.
Commissioned and produced by Manchester International Festival and Thomas Dane Gallery with the support of Outset Contemporary Art Fund and Culture Ireland

As part of the celebrations marking the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s 20th anniversary, Twenty, an exhibition featuring twenty artists, opens to the public on the 28 May 2011. The exhibition presents a younger generation of Irish and international artists whose work is seen increasingly on the international stage.
Dust Storm (near Manter, Kansas) 2009 will be exhibited

13/05/2011 – 21/05/2011AO& SPRING RESIDENCYLoquaiplatz 3, Vienna

plants and animals of the season, aliments of disclosed origin, multiple differentiated courses
every day May 13th - May 21th at 6pm
reservations required.http://www.aound.net

A world premiere and a company premiere are just two highlights in an evening of sheer energy with The Royal Ballet. Resident choreographer Wayne McGregor evolves his surprising series of art world collaborations in a world premiere for The Royal Ballet with visual artist John Gerrard introducing a virtual landscape to the stage – astonishingly real but meticulously fabricated by the artist – real time portraits unfold to the enigmatic Tippett score Fantasia concertante on a Theme of Corelli, conducted by Barry Wordsworth, Music Director of The Royal Ballet.

The Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, in partnership with the Perth International Arts Festival,
presents the first Australian solo exhibition by John Gerrard.

07/02/2011 – 02/04/2011John Gerrard IvoryPress,
Madrid, Spain

Ivorypress Art + Books Space are hosting a solo exhibition of John Gerrard.
*JOHN GERRARD published by Ivory Press, is now available. The book includes texts by Yoani Sánchez (writer), Ed Keller, the philosophers Robin Mackay and Reza Negarestani,as well as an in-depth conversation with Simon Groom (Director of The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh).

Cuban School (Community 5th of October) 2010 is a portrait of an existing building, situated in the countryside outside Havana. Constructed in the 1960's to a modular Eastern Bloc design, the school is, though actively used and home to 75 school children, essentially a 'functional ruin', disinheriting its formal integrity through entropy and decay. The site continues the artist's interest in modular, pre-fabricated structures, questioning their resilience and capacity to exist as potent entities once complicit resources are depleted or removed.

30/07/2010John Gerrard, Sow Farm What you see is where you're at. Part 3
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Curated by Simon Groom

27/06/2010 – 04/07/2010AO& SUMMER RESIDENCYLoquaiplatz 3, Vienna

plants and animals of the season, aliments of disclosed origin, multiple differentiated courses
A sculptural display of the work of Arche Noah, Austria (http://arche-noah.at) by John Gerrard
every day june 27th - July 4th at 6pmhttp://www.aound.net

As a part of a series of new contemporary art projects for the Jubilee line commissioned by Art on the Underground, Irish artist John Gerrard is to present a large-scale installation of Oil Stick Work (Angelo Martinez / Richfield, Kansas) in Canary Wharf Underground station’s iconic ticket hall. Shown on this occasion as a large-scale data projection on a monolithic block wall in the station (11m x 8m), Oil Stick Work (Angelo Martinez / Richfield, Kansas) is a complex digital moving image piece that develops in real time for a thirty-year period.
May 14th 2010 to May 14th 2011

06/03/2010 – 14/03/2010AO& Late Winter Residency Loquaiplatz 3

Every day from 7pm
Plants and animals of the season
Aliments of disclosed origin
Multiple differentiated courses
For further information and booking
phf (at) aound.net
http://www.aound.net

The Hirshhorn Museum’s “Directions” series features recent work by Vienna-based Irish artist John Gerrard (b. Dublin, 1974), who uses digital technology to re-imagine landscape art. The exhibition, organized by associate curator Kelly Gordon, opens Nov. 5 and is on view through May 31, 2010. Gerrard uses Realtime 3-D, a customized game-design software, in conjunction with on-site photography, animating the stills into a seamless cinematic panning shot to capture a 360-degree view of his subjects. The result is imagery that hovers between fact and fiction.

John Gerrard Animated Scene will be a collateral project at the 53rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia. It will be inaugurated on June 4, 2009, and remain open to the public from June 7 - September 30, 2009.
Animated Scene will present three new works as large-scale projections. Each work introduces a virtual scene - astonishingly real but entirely and meticulously fabricated by the artist and his studio between 2007-9 - based on documentation of the agri-industrial landscapes of the American Great Plains, scattered with grain silos, pig production units and small towns.
A fourth work from the same series will be shown concurrently at the Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, as part of Infinitum, the final part of a trilogy of exhibitions mounted by Axel Vervoordt which began in 2007 with Artempo: When Time Becomes Art.
The project is curated by Jasper Sharp, curator and writer, and Patrick T. Murphy, Director and Curator of the Royal Hibernian Academy.
For more details see http://www.johngerrard-venice.net